BHOLD SP1 Core Portal Role Management for Dummies

20th of May, 2013 / / 8 Comments

I’ve had the rare luxury of time in learning BHOLD SP1 for a customer recently and I thought I’d share the basics of what I’ve learned about the product. There’s very little in the way of information in the public realm about BHOLD SP1, particularly as Microsoft have made significant changes to the database schema for Service Pack 1 of BHOLD, so I thought I’d share some learnings.

Beware, this is a ‘BHOLD for Dummies’ scenario where all you might like to do is develop a quick scenario to show off BHOLD’s capabilities in role management.… [Keep reading] “BHOLD SP1 Core Portal Role Management for Dummies”

Fixing issues with BHOLD SP1 FIM Integration MSI installation

17th of May, 2013 / / No Comments

For those struggling to get their BHOLD SP1 demo working in a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit environment, I’ve recently run into two critical errors I thought I would blog about as they took me and my colleague Stefan Buchman some hair pulling time to work through. As this is a bleeding edge release, there isn’t much in the way of public information about others running into these errors so I thought I’d blog their fixes in case others were struggling.… [Keep reading] “Fixing issues with BHOLD SP1 FIM Integration MSI installation”

An Overview of Server Name Indication (SNI) and Creating an IIS SNI Web SSL Binding Using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012

18th of April, 2013 / / 7 Comments

One of the frustrating limitations in supporting secure websites has been the inability to share IP addresses among SSL websites. In the day, there were a few ways to solve this limitation. One, you could use multiple IP addresses, binding a SSL certificate to each combination of an IP address and standard SSL port. This has been the best method to date but it is administratively heavy and not necessarily a good use of valuable IP addresses.… [Keep reading] “An Overview of Server Name Indication (SNI) and Creating an IIS SNI Web SSL Binding Using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012”

Adding Additional Nodes to a Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Service Pack 1 SharePoint 2013 Farm

15th of April, 2013 / / 3 Comments

Microsoft recently released Service Pack 1 for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2. With the release of Service Pack 1 came some really good support for the latest elements that form the foundation of the FIM Portal, namely Windows Server 2012 and SharePoint Foundation 2013.

While basing the FIM 2010 R2 SP1 Portal on a SharePoint 2013 Foundation doesn’t offer any feature advantages over SharePoint 2010, it does provide compatibility with Windows Server 2012 which SharePoint 2010 won’t do until the release of Service Pack 2.… [Keep reading] “Adding Additional Nodes to a Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Service Pack 1 SharePoint 2013 Farm”

Controlling UI Elements with Sets in FIM 2010

12th of October, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Out of the box, FIM 2010’s methodology for handling which UI elements are visible on the FIM homepage are limited to “are you an administrator” or “are you not”. This is governed by the Usage Keyword “BasicUI”. This guide will demonstrate how you can create additional Usage Keywords tied to sets which will allow for granular control over which navigation bar and homepage elements are visible to a user.

Before we get in to how to create a Usage Keyword, let’s understand what it actually is.… [Keep reading] “Controlling UI Elements with Sets in FIM 2010”